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8 years 4 months ago #151452
by ianoz
Not many crawlers , but here is what was there .Was great to catch up with Lance again ,and to met Andrew in person.
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8 years 4 months ago #151460
by gauntjoh
Gidday Ian,
If that Fowler Challenger is what I think it is it is very rare, having a two cylinder version of the 'Field Marshall' two stroke diesel engine. As with many rare models, the reason it is rare is that they were not a success with the engines aparantly using a lot of oil and wearing rapidly.
Great pictures and a good selection of machines including the great little Ransomes MG6 machine.
John Gaunt, ACMOC Director, UK
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8 years 4 months ago #151461
by mrsmackpaul
Gidday Ian,
If that Fowler Challenger is what I think it is it is very rare, having a two cylinder version of the 'Field Marshall' two stroke diesel engine. As with many rare models, the reason it is rare is that they were not a success with the engines aparantly using a lot of oil and wearing rapidly.
Great pictures and a good selection of machines including the great little Ransomes MG6 machine.
That is a Challenger with the 2 cylinder 2 stroke there are couple floating around in Australia but thats fairly rare unit world wide now, not many made to start with and not many survived
I like the first little crawler top photos Ian
Paul
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8 years 4 months ago #151463
by ianoz
Gidday Ian,
If that Fowler Challenger is what I think it is it is very rare, having a two cylinder version of the 'Field Marshall' two stroke diesel engine. As with many rare models, the reason it is rare is that they were not a success with the engines aparantly using a lot of oil and wearing rapidly.
Great pictures and a good selection of machines including the great little Ransomes MG6 machine.
Hi John , Yes it is a Challenger One .Had a quick chat to the owner .He lives not far from our Australian resident expert on Marshall and fowler tractors . He said Don said there was about 250 Challenger ones that came to Australia .
The little Ransome not only looked good , but was mechanicly A1 ,, Started first pull on the crank handle
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8 years 4 months ago #151478
by Catboy1
On the fifth photo, what is the steering wheel for? I have never seen that before. Robyn
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